The success of the Eastern Partnership depends on the success of Ukraine, as Ukraine is a key component of the Eastern Partnership, admitted guests of the 6th Europe-Ukraine Forum in Budapest. Łukasz Ciuba from the Foundation Institute for Eastern Studies reports.

On Friday May 17th, Krakow, Poland, hosted a summit of the foreign ministers of both the Visegrad Group and the Eastern Partnership states. The summit included the participation of the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton as well as Štefan Füle, the EU Commissioner for enlargement policy. The summit was hosted by Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski and held in the framework of the Visegrad Group, of which Poland is currently the president. Adam Reichardt and Giacomo Manca report on the Visegrad Group summit in Krakow, Poland

Andrey Devyatkov from Tyumen State University discusses the Russian authorities' flirtation with social media, and the idea that new media does not always change old political habits.

In the last few weeks there has been an increase of tension in relations between Moldova and the breakaway territory of Transnistria. Do the events which took place in the small village of Varniţa on April 26th and 27th 2013 involving the local population, the police and the Transnistrian Spetsnaz forces, pose some important questions on the future of this conflict? Piotr Oleksy from the Institute of Eastern Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, discusses the recent escalation or tension between Moldova and Transnistria.